The Lightning Thief Chapter Questions and Answers Chapters 1-11...
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Chapter 11
1. What does Aunty Em look like when she opens the door?
Aunty Em is dressed in black from head to toe. Nothing can be seen but her hands.
2. What was Aunty Em's true identity?
Aunty Em is really Medussa.
3. What were the clues that Aunty Em was Medusa?
The hissing sound is the snakes on here head, the statues with suprised looks on their faces, and she talks about her two sisters that died.
4. What important information does Percy find in Medusa'a office?
Percy finds some addresses in Medusa's office. One was to the underworld in Hollywood, California.
5. Where did Percy send Medusa's head?
Percy sends Medusa's heads to the gods at Mount Olympus.
Chapter 12
1. How did Grover and Annabeth previously know each other?
The came to camp together 5 years ago.
2. What was the choice Percy was given in his dreams?
Percy would have to decided if he should help Hades rise from the underworld, in order to get his mother back.
3. What new information does Annabeth tell us about her father?
That he didn't want to raise her, he is afraid she will bring harm to his new family.
Chapter 13
4. What magic item does Hades have? What are its powers?
Hades has the Helm of Darkness that makes you disappear in the shadows, rendering you invisible.
5. What is Percy's "fatal mistake" while battling the Chimera
Percy slashed at the Chimera's neck, but hit the collar instead. This allows the Chimera to attack Percy.
1. Who saves Percy?
His father, Poseidon.
2. What message does the woman in the water bring to Percy?
The message is that his father believes in him, his mother's fate is not hopeless, he should go to Santa Monica, and he should not trust the gifts.
3. What happened to the family that was in the Arch with Percy?
The family that was in the Arch with Percy survives.
4. What god convinces Percy to help him?
The god Ares convinces Percy to find his shield in The Tunnel of Love at an abandoned water park.
5. What happened to Annabeth and Percy at the pool?
Percy and Annabeth are attacked by Robot Spiders.
6. How does Annabeth put her knowledge of physics to work on the water ride?
Annabeth uses her knowlege of physics to help them jump from the cart at the right time.
7. How does Grover save the day?
Grover catches Annabeth and Percy by using his flying shoes, this saves the day.
Chapter 16.
1.What’s in the backpack Ares gives Percy?
In the backpack there are fresh clothes, $20 in cash, a pouch of golden drachmasa, and a bag of double stuff oreos.
2. What news does Ares give Percy about his mom?
Percy finds out that his mother is still alive, she was taken to the underworld as a hostage.
3. What does Grover do with the animals?
Grover helps to free the animals and then puts a Satry sanctuary on them. This is a blessing that will keep them safe so they can reach the wilderness.
Chapter 17
4. What happens to cause Percy to realize the casino is a trap?
Percy asks someone what year it is and gets the reply 1977.
5. Who is the spirit in the sea? What does she give to Percy?
The spirit in the sea was a Nereid, who gives Percy 3 white pearls.
6. Why doesn’t Riptide work on the kids who jump Percy in the alley?
The kids in the alley are mortals, so Riptide will not work on them.
7. What does Crusty do to his customers?
Crusty, streches out his customes until they fit onto his beds.
8. What’s the address for the Underworld?
The address for the underworld is DOA Recording Studios in Los Angelas.
Chapter 18
1. How does Charon realize Percy and his friends are not really dead?
Charon realizes that Percy and his friends are not dead after sniffing them.
3. What does Percy realize about monsters at the end of chapter 18?
That three headed dogs prefer balls over sticks, and they just want someone to love them.
Chapter 19
4. What is the Field of Asphodel?
A field where people who are dead go to wait for passage into the underworld. It is for people that are neither good nor bad,they have just lived.
5. What do you have to do to enter the Isles of the Blest?
A place for people who had been reborn three times and all three times had lived good lives and achied Elysium.There was a lakes in the middle of a valley, In the lake was three small islands like a vaction resort in the Bahamas.
6. How do Grover, Percy and Annabeth end up at the pit of Tartarus?
They were looking for the palace of Hades and slipped into the tunnel.
7. Why was Percy’s backpack getting heavy?
Percy's backpack was gettying heavy because he was carrying Zeus's mster bolt.
8. What happens to Percy when he decides to use the pearls?
He has to chose who will use them. He only has three and there are four people he needs to get out of the underworld. He decides to leave his mother and come back for her later.
9. How do Annabeth and Grover prove themselves to be real friends to Percy?
They both offer to stay so he can leave with his mother.
10. What is the power of the pearls?
The pearls had the power to free them from the underworld.
Chapter 20
1. Why does Percy will himself to get soaked in the water?
He wills himself to get soaked so that he will not draw attention to himself.
2. What deal does Percy make with Ares?
Percy offers to fight ARes, if ARes wins he can turn Percy into anything he wants. If Percy wins, Ares has to give him the bolt and the helm of darkness and go away.
3. What strategy does Percy use to beat Ares?
Percy relies on the power of the sea to help him beat Ares.
4. After Percy wounds Ares, something strange happens that makes Ares back off. What is it?
The blood of the gods, Icor, flows from his foot. It is as if a cloud is covering the sun, light fades, sound and color drain away, and the temperature drops to freezing.
5. Why is important that the Furies witness Percy’s battle?
It is important that the Furies witness Percy's battle, because it proves he was not guilty. They wish Percy well, he has changed his fate.
6. At the end of the chapter, what does Percy decide he must do to complete the quest?
Percy decides he must go to Mount Olympus and face Zeus.
Chapter 21
1. When the Los Angeles reporters interview Percy, how does he get back at Gabe?
Percy tells people that Gabe will give them free appliances, and gives them Gabe's number.
2. Why do Percy, Annabeth and Grover split up when they arrive back in New York?
The three split up so that Annabeth and Grover can go tell Chiron what is going on, while Percy goes to see Zeus.
3. How does Zeus reward Percy?
He Allows Percy to remain alive.
4. Who was speaking from the pit?
Cronus was speaking from the pit.
Chapter 22
1. What’s the tradition for campers who return from quests?
While they are away, the campers make the people on a quest a burial shroud. When they come back the tradition is to burn it.
2.How did the Ares cabin “honor” Percy?
They volunteered to make Percy's shroud.
3. How does Percy’s mom get enough money to go to college?
She turns Gabe into a statue and sells him to get the money.
4. What happens to Grover in this chapter?
Grover goes on a quest to find the god Pan.
5. Does Percy decide to go to camp year round or go to seventh grade?
Percy finally decides to go home for the year.
6. Why is it dangerous to litter at Camp Half‐Blood?
The nerids and nymphs will put centipedes and mud in your bed.
7. What turned Luke so bitter?
He didn't like the quest his father had given him.
8. How did Annabeth take Percy’s advice?
He goes home to be with his mother for the year.